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Top 10 malware reported to Sophos in September 2005

Position

Last
month

Malware

Percentage of reports

1

1

18.6%

2

3

7.6%

3

2

6.8%

4

4

4.3%

5

9

3.3%

6

8

2.8%

7

7

2.7%

8

10

2.6%

9

6

2.5%

10

Re-entry

2.0%

Others

46.8%

W32/Mytob-BE is a mass-mailing worm and backdoor Trojan that can be controlled through the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network.

W32/Mytob-BE is capable of spreading through email and through various operating system vulnerabilities such as the LSASS (MS04-011) vulnerability.

W32/Mytob-BE harvests email addresses from files on the infected computer and from the Windows address book.

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